How to Relate Content

How to Relate Content

With the shared nature of MyLO, you can easily relate one content item to another. By relating one content item to another, you're providing a link to further information and improving your site's SEO. With an action alert, you might relate to any of the issues of focus; for an event, you could relate to a specific committee.

This documentation will review the types of content that can relate to others, the content types to which can be related, and what those look like in view mode.

How Content can be Related to Another

Use this table to find the content item you are editing (left column: This content…) then find out to which content types this content can be related (other columns: can relate to this content…). The content must be published before you can relate other content to it or relate it to other content.

This content… can relate to this…
Action Alerts Committees Events Issues Positions Tags Webforms
Action Alerts   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    
Articles   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓  
Committees ✓**     ✓ ✓   ✓**
Events   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓  
Pages   ✓   ✓ ✓    
Positions   ✓   ✓*      
Webforms   ✓          
* - required
** - Committees can relate to action alerts and webforms, but it's best to relate content to a Committee. Why?

Tags

A tag is an organizational keyword, known in other systems as categories or metadata. It is a label that can be applied to articles and events. As you type in a keyword, past entries that match your entry will appear--just start typing to see and select tags that already exist. If your tag does not exist, simply finish the rest of the tag. You can add more than one tag by adding a comma between each. Capitalization matters, and spaces are allowed.

Example: Redistricting, voter education, my own custom tag

Best Practices: Relating content to a Committee

The list of related content from the Committee editing form includes content by title only, not allowing for any confirmation of to which League the content belongs. Alternatively, from any other content type, you can relate to a Committee. When editing content, the related committees are listed by title and League name, so you can further narrow down the list by the latter. Doing so will prevent you from relating to another League's committee.

Example of Committee, Related Content and All Posts Related to this Committee

This is an example of relating to content from a Committee (outlined in red) versus relating to a Committee from a content item (outlined in green)

 

How Related Content Appears on a Content Item

See examples of each content type that can relate to other content. The Committee is the only content to put the summary/teaser to use within its dynamic view.

Click any of the images below to view a larger size image in a new tab.

Article

The links to related content appear below the body of the content, with the one sentence logline of any related positions. League to which this content belongs is also displayed.

Example of Article with related content

Action Alert

The links to related content appear below the body of the content, with the one sentence logline of any related positions.

Example of Action Alert with related content

Committee

This is an example of how other types of content were related to this committee. The links to related posts appear below the body of the content, with the summary for each content item.

Example of Committee with Posts Related to this Committee

Event

The links to related content appear below the body of the content, with the one sentence logline of any related positions.

Example of Event with related content

Page

The links to related content appear below the body of the content, with the one sentence logline of any related positions.

Example of Page with related content

Position

The links to related content appear below the body of the content. League to which this content belongs is also displayed.

Example of Position with related content

Webform

The links to related content appear below the body of the content.

Example of Webform with related content

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